Tag: poet

  • Angels Dust

    A little secret there a little secret here little secrets everywhere your family legacy is covered up both in blood angels dust, devils dust and rust and drugs a gunshot wound to the head mysterious deaths and you will not rewrite a history that is also mine I know the end Diana, not Diana Gets…

  • I know

    I know I know I know I know I know I know And I will take my name back The family tree remembers Lies you do not want to be seen Your grandiose delusions are memories from a cocaine addled brain who wanted to hide bodies in the river holes punched in walls and dead…

  • He was a character

    And you cut off bits of our family history like a bad editor who doesn’t understand our back story he’s a character you say oh, he was a character he was the villain and you all refused to look and listen it was all there it was all there you just never fucking cared

  • Dead butterflies

    I’ve got dead butterflies in the recesses of my mind old crushes I thought I had I don’t think I ever actually did maybe that’s a lie I don’t know anymore I can’t think of love the same way Now that I know societies score

  • Half myself

    I live in this world where I am constantly holding back never saying what I want to say for fear of making others mad I wish I were braver that I could say the truth to people I want to but I don’t think they’d even listen to me No one listens to me I…

  • In spaces no one wants me

    And I am basic Existing in the smallness of what little security I have Alone in my little apartment I think of revolutions without doing a single thing I think of women that came before me that shook the worlds around them painting when the world told them not to educating themselves in a world…

  • What if I were

    What if I were a little bit bolder? What if I were a little bit meaner? And I don’t even mean meaner I simply mean being direct What if I took as much as a man? Swore as much as a man? Was as angry as a man? What then? Would I reach my full…

  • Poetry my family will hate #1

    Did you think about me in your secret keeping Do you not speak to me now because it’s hard to watch me unraveling as an adult I should be a secure woman in my thirties with a job able to have a family because I let love in instead, I am by myself is that…

  • True

    I should have coffee in the morning and a spouse to make breakfast for kids to take to school and a house with a blue door but I have none of those things I am a thirty-something that never quite adjusted to time passing bye how did I get here? I am a Stevie Nicks…

  • They’d rather be evil instead

    They used $22.Billion to bomb school children all to get the gas prices down and they’ll say it’s money well spent Saw six potholes today in my town that haven’t been fixed for years I know a lot of the kids at the high school in my neighborhood have lunch debt and won’t afford college…